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How Tablet Games Can Teach Skills to Students with Visual Impairments

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His tablet-run version of the game has the same goal: pick letters to figure out a mystery word. The tablet reads out each letter, building your association between the raised dots and the alphabet. The tablet reads out each letter, building your association between the raised dots and the alphabet.

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Sleep Pod Companies Want to Disrupt Naps on Campus

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Around this time of the school year, it’s not uncommon to see sleep-deprived students slumped over library desks studying late hours in preparation for final exams. Smathers Libraries at University of Florida, has a clear view of the futuristic egg-shaped pods from her office in the university’s Health Science Center Libraries.

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The 5-Year, $15 Million Global Learning XPRIZE Competition Is Over. Here’s Who Won.

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In September 2017, five finalists were chosen to field test their tools with thousands of children across villages in Tanzania. Kitkit offers a game-based learning program on tablets to help children learn independently. Kitkit offers a game-based learning program on tablets to help children learn independently.

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Sphero Makes a Big Acquisition in littleBits to Bring Hands-On STEAM Learning to Life

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based company explained the difficult decision as an effort to return its focus to the education market following a foray into creating consumer toys. Sphero has acquired littleBits , a New York City-based company best known for its electronic kits and instructional resources that introduce kids to building and programming by hand.

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Will a Netflix Model Work for Textbooks?

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Mercier, who’s starting his second year studying business management at City, University of London’s Cass Business School in a couple of weeks, found three of them on a new service called Perlego , a UK-based company which wants to be the Netflix of academic content. In July 2017, it sold 22 percent of its stake in Penguin Random House.

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How Education Technology Will Revolutionize Learning

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The digital diffusion of education enabled the development of the collaborative economy, which refers to an economic system in which companies and several independent creators and producers aggregate and create value jointly in freely interconnected networks. “Co-creation, Education Technology / June 2, 2017.

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Alabama Department of Education Gives Students Free Summer Access to Fuel Education Solutions

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These vetted programs are given to students for free and are accessible anywhere they can get online using their tablets or computers.”. Big Universe gives students 24/7 online access to a library of more than 13,000 leveled eBooks from well-known publishers. Ryan, General Manager of Fuel Education.